Re: [MacPerl] Unix daemons in Perl on MacOS?

[Ken Williams <ken@forum.swarthmore.edu>]

webmaster@mycoinfo.com (Brian McNett) wrote:

>> while not a MacPerl only solution, how about a stay open applescript that
>> calls a MacPerl script?  The example is a script that sleeps for 5 seconds,
>> then does something.  A stay open applescript can call a perl script every
>> 5 seconds.  For user feedback, Mac::PerlAnswer is ok, but there is no built
>> in timeout for the dialog.  As of OS9, the applescript display dialog has
>> an option "giving up after" x seconds, which can be called using Mac::Glue.
>> Just a thought.
>
>Hmm.  Some good ideas, but I'm not to keen on the applescript angle.  I 
>hadn't considered the lack of a timeout for the dialog, although one 
>might be able to use Mac::Dialogs to create a dialog that times out on 
>its own...

But that's not necessarily part of the requirement, is it?  Couldn't you just
flash the menubar or something, i.e. something that's relatively common on the
Mac?

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  Ken Williams                             Last Bastion of Euclidity
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